By Chimaobi Nwaiwu.
Nnewi - The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has said that it will resume protest in it
bid to free Nnamdi Kanu, Director of Radio
Biafra and that it is putting in place a
Television technology that it will use to
broadcast live all its activities in Nigeria.
IPOB also said its leader and Director of
Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu will no longer
accept any food, including those brought by
his close family members to avoid poisoning
it by the Department of State Security, DSS,
alleged to always scrutinize his food before
allowing it in.
IPOB in a statement jointly signed by its
spokesmen Emma Mmezu and Dr Clifford
Iroanya, said 'many people are willing to die
for Nnamdi Kanu so Buhari led All
Progressives Congress Federal Government
should tread carefully with the life of Mr.
Kanu because hell will be let loose if anything
happens to him, Nigeria will never be the same
should anything untoward happens to Kanu”.
“Our resumption of protest is imminent but for
understandable reasons we can't give you
details yet. We are putting in place our TV
technology so the whole world will watch it
live online and gain firsthand knowledge of
the brutality of the Nigerian Army.
“We are IPOB and we do things in a unique
way, so our next outing will shake the whole
earth. The worst mistake this government did
is to arrest our leader and now they are
beginning to discover how formidable we are.
“Death to us is nothing, freedom for Biafra is
everything. Those governors from southeast
state who have decided to bring them selves
out as argent of the APC led government in
Nigeria will soon know the stuff IPOB is made
of at the appropriate time.
“In response to what some South East
Governors are doing, IPOB does not expect
our elders and leaders to support us openly,
we know that not all of them are trust worthy.
IPOB worldwide decided to be doing and
piloting this struggle without them at this
point in time, till the appointed time” they
said.
Also "there is serious plan to kill Mr. Kanu by
his persecutors who are confused on what to
do about the charges they preferred against
him, just as they said they will resume their
protests.
“We have advised our leader to reject every
food, including those brought by close family
members because the DSS that always
scrutinize his food before allowing it in as
might poison the food.
“He will also not mix with other prisoners
because we are aware that Interior Ministry
officials working through the Prison Service
have planted their agents pretending to be
prisoners, in order to spy and report on him to
DSS.
“We have eyes everywhere so we get regular
reports on his health status. Nigeria knows
the consequences should anything happen to
our leader because in every family in Biafra
lands are hardcore IPOB” they said.
“The bail refusal is not a problem for us
because IPOB wants the trial to go ahead, so
we can expose and disgrace a corrupt judicial
system hamstrung by the whims of a dictator
in the the present government of Nigeria” they
said.
The group alleged that “the trial Judge was
hired to do a hatchet job, but he never
reckoned that we will be this tenacious. As
long as they want to go by the rule in this
trial we welcome, it but any silly games will be
resisted.
“It is obvious that the Nigerian Federal
Government has no case against our leader
Nnamdi Kanu, hence we continue to call for
his release rather than his vindictive
detention.
Meanwhile, the IPOB through it Media and
Publicity Officer Mr. Emma Powerful has
denied a local radio and television report in
Anambra state that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is
begging President Muhammadu Buhari to
release him.
IPOB described the report precisely from the
Anambra State owned radio and television
reports as blatant lie that is calculated to
destroy the name of Mr. Kanu and to give the
impression that he is chicken hearted when he
is not and is in high spirit to face his trumped
up charges.
According to Mr. Powerful to set the records
straight, there no time IPOB, Mr Kanu or his
lawyers wrote to Buhari, Nigerian Government
or representatives of the Nigerian Government
anywhere in the world begging for the release
of Mr Kanu, rather IPOB through lawyer to Mr
Kanu wrote the British High Commission
Abuja over the injustice by Nigerian Federal
Government against Mr kanu who is also a
British citizen.
In the letter through their lawyer Hon. Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, titled "Nnamdi Kanu: A victim of
travesty of justice and a call for British
Government to be on the watch” IPOB said
there is a deliberate design by the Nigerian
Government to subvert the course of justice in
the criminal trial of Mr. Kanu.
“It is repeating the obvious to state that Mr
Kanu is a full British citizen, by virtue of
which position he is entitled to all rights,
privileges and protections guaranteed under
the British Laws and convention.
Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/ipob-plans-live-tv-broadcast-massive-protest/